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Recent Examples of latecomer
But Apple was largely considered to be a latecomer to consumer-facing artificial intelligence.
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Given that context, the new staging from director Jeremy Herrin also featuring Tim Hopper as the Old Man and Cliff Chamberlain as the whiplashed latecomer to the party, feels too tame.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The latecomer leaned forward and rested his head and his hands on the pew in front of him.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
There are too many latecomers who need to be punished.
—Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Lisa Eadicicco, CNN, 19 Feb. 2025
Given that context, the new staging from director Jeremy Herrin also featuring Tim Hopper as the Old Man and Cliff Chamberlain as the whiplashed latecomer to the party, feels too tame.
—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Feb. 2025
The latecomer leaned forward and rested his head and his hands on the pew in front of him.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 2024
There are too many latecomers who need to be punished.
—Alexis Christoforous, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for latecomer
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Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla remains the biggest laggard in the group, with its stock down about 17% this year heading into Wednesday’s earnings report after the bell.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
22 July 2025
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Forty-six percent of supply chain laggards cited supply chain disruptions on their earnings calls, while 37 percent reported delays as major contributors to underperformance.—
Sarah Jones,
Sourcing Journal,
18 July 2025
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Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
25 Jan. 2025
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One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries, like a painkiller found in a sea snail?—
Berly McCoy,
NPR,
21 July 2025
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Installed around the exterior of planters or raised beds, thick copper tape is used to keep slugs and snails from crawling in.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 July 2025
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Treatment with contact insecticides after the crawlers have settled down and molted to the second nymphal stage of their lifecycle is not effective.—
Tim Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
13 July 2025
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Pay per crawl is currently in private beta; interested sites and crawlers can reach out to Cloudflare.—
Emily Forlini,
PC Magazine,
1 July 2025
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“Latecomer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/latecomer. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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